S8 Ep307: THE SHIFTING BALANCE OF FEAR IN IRAN Colleague Malcolm Hoenlein. As the regime faces potential implosion, discussions involve a return of the Shah's son as a symbolic figurehead, though no clear path to collective leadership exists. Revolutionaries are no
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelor with Thaddezman Carter, my colleague and co-host from American Greatness, and Malcolm |
| 0:21.9 | Holnand of the Conference of President's Major American Jewish Organizations. I recall, Thaddeus, |
| 0:26.8 | you're making remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives after the protests in 2009 |
| 0:32.7 | led to the death of a young woman, many others as well because of the beseech opened fire. |
| 0:39.0 | You're making that statement. |
| 0:40.9 | The Obama administration not responding in any credible fashion these many years later. |
| 0:46.6 | And here we have again an administration that has an opportunity to respond. |
| 0:52.9 | You have a question for Malcolm, that is. |
| 0:55.0 | Malcolm, it's not too premature for pundits to speculate as to the course of events in Iran |
| 1:01.0 | following the implosion of this regime beneath its people's aspiration for freedom. |
| 1:06.0 | There's been talk about a return of the Shah in the form of his son. Are there any long-term plans in place |
| 1:13.6 | anywhere for what would happen if the regime does in fact fall? So that is the critical question |
| 1:20.6 | right now. The Shah's son, Razablawi, has had increasing visibility. We've seen signs at demonstrations calling for bringing back the |
| 1:31.6 | Shah, the son of the Shah. It would not be, I think, as a permanent solution. He's more of a |
| 1:37.2 | figurehead. I don't think he's himself as the next head of government and discussions we've had |
| 1:42.9 | and others have had with him. |
| 1:48.1 | He's a symbol and there is a vacuum. |
| 1:53.9 | And for a long time, people have worked and trying to bring together the disparate elements that we talked about, |
| 1:58.1 | that John asked about the different groups that constitute the opposition, |
| 2:02.3 | which has been developing and been imprisoned and been and suffered so much over the years. |
| 2:05.1 | And they saw the handwriting of the wall. |
| 2:07.4 | You know that Venezuela gave more than 10,000 passports for leaders of the Venezuelan government |
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